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The Long View

The Long View of Popularising ExplorationThe Long View of Popularising Exploration

Released On: 15 Sep 2015

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History series in which stories from the past shed light on the present.

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The Long View
The Long View of Popularising Exploration
History series in which stories from the past shed light on the present.
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The Long View
Vietnamese refugees in 1979
Jonathan Freedland compares Britain's responses to refugees from Vietnam and Syria.
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The Long View
Today's crisis in dairy farming and the wheat crisis of the 1930s
Jonathan Freedland compares the current milk crisis with the 1930s wheat crisis.
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The Long View
John Thurloe, Cromwell's postmaster, and the interception of mail
Today's debates about online privacy have 17th-century precedents. With Jonathan Freedland
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Slave Labour and Consumer Power
Jonathan Freedland examines current debates about ethical shopping and production.
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The Long View
Online Dating and the Lonely Hearts Ad
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of online dating through a social network from 1898
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The Long View
Donald Trump and the Politics of Celebrity
Jonathan Freedland examines the rise of Donald Trump through the prism of the past.
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The Long View
Military Drones and the 'Robo-planes' of the 1940s
Jonathan Freedland examines contemporary military drones and Nazi V1 and V2 weapons.
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The Long View
Celebrity Football Managers
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of celebrity football managers.
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The Long View
Pioneering Women
Jonathan Freedland focuses on Hillary Clinton and pioneering political women from history.
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The Long View
The EU Referendum and the English Reformation
Jonathan Freedland examines the result of the EU referendum through the prism of the past.
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The Long View
Donald Trump's border wall and the 1840s Great Hedge of India
Jonathan Freedland on Donald Trump's border wall and the 1840s Great Hedge of India.
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The Long View
The Long View of Targeted Fake News
Jonathan Freedland on targeted fake news and the murder myth of a boy in Medieval Norwich.
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The Long View
Brexit and an Elizabethan Age of Trade
Jonathan Freedland hears how Elizabeth I and Theresa May look beyond Europe for trade.
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The Long View
13/07/2017
Grass-roots politics with the Conservative Primrose League in the 1880s and Momentum today
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The Long View
Grenfell Tower and Watson Street fire tragedies
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of landmark fire tragedies.
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The Long View
Cyber-attacks and the Great Siege of Dover Castle
Jonathan Freedland compares cyber-attacks today with the Siege of Dover Castle in 1216.
28 mins
The Long View
03/08/2017
Jonathan Freedland takes the long, unshaven view of the recent fashion for beard-wearing.
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The Long View
Weakened Prime Ministers
Jonathan Freedland compares Theresa May's weakened premiership with Lord Rosebery in 1894.
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The Long View
Russian meddling in the American democratic process
Jonathan Freedland compares attempts to interfere in elections.
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The Long View
The rise of Uber and the plight of London's watermen
Jonathan Freedland compares the plight of black cab drivers with that of 18thC watermen.
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The Long View
Catalonia and Cornwall
Jonathan Freedland compares the Catalonia crisis with a moment in Cornish history.
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The Long View
Catalonia and Cornwall
Jonathan Freedland looks at past events which shed light on present-day controversies.
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The Long View
Brexit Special
The Long View marks a year to go with a Brexit special edition.
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The Long View
Trump and Hamilton on American Trade
Jonathan Freedland on Donald Trump's trade plans and Alexander Hamilton's financial plan.
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The Long View
Facebook revelations and the Reformation
The Facebook Cambridge Analytica data and the Catholic church in pre-Reformation Europe.
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The Long View
Driverless Cars and the Railways of 1830
Jonathan Freedland compares safety on the railways in the 1830s to driverless cars today.
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The Long View
Russian Expulsions
Jonathan Freedland and guests take the Long View on the expulsion of Russian diplomats.
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The Long View
Prime Ministers and Divided Parties
Jonathan Freedland compares Theresa May's woes now with those of Arthur Balfour in 1903-06
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The Long View
The Long View of would-be reforming leaders
Jonathan Freedland compares a Saudi prince with a medieval pope.
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The Long View
Gambling and New Technologies
Jonathan Freedland asks how new technologies transformed gambling in the 1840s and today.
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